The day after the empress got the news of Prince Ning's secret entry into Beijing.

On the eleventh day of the lunar month, Wu Xukuan went to court.

In the early morning of this day, Wu Xukuan and dozens of other important ministers who had been sick and could not go to the court before, all came to the early court, Wu Xukuan's "concession" speed, faster than everyone imagined, Zhou An had already planned to carry out the second phase of the arrest operation in these days, but because Wu Xukuan and others had returned to the court, the next action was not necessary.

In the confrontation between the empress and Wu Xukuan to seize power, this can be regarded as a phased victory.

However, for the empress, who already knew about Prince Ning's secret entry into Beijing, this phased victory, although important, was not related to the general trend.

There are too many reasons for Wu Xukuan to give in, and it can even be said that he was not forced to make concessions, but took the initiative to make concessions.

Because he had to wait for Prince Ning to enter Beijing.

Or wait for Kang Longji to die!

For Wu Xukuan, who still has a big advantage, what he wants to do now is not to intensify the contradictions, but to stabilize the situation, and the original intention of not going to court is to put pressure on the empress and shake the minds of some neutral Beijing officials.

Now, that doesn't seem necessary.

Wu Xukuan has found the simplest, most direct and most reliable way to win!

As long as he still has heavy troops, the military power is still in his hands, and the generals in the army still support him, then the only thing he needs is time, he only needs to wait, wait for Prince Ning to arrive, wait for Kang Longji to die, and everything else is not so important.

The empress also made concessions, and the four people who were detained in the inner prison of the Zhenfu Division for the crime of bullying the monarch were all released after this morning...... They were only dismissed from office and their homes were raided, not killed.

Wu Xu returned to the court, and the empress also let people go, which made the court of Qianjing City breathe a sigh of relief.

However, they only see the appearance.

In fact, the situation did not improve in the slightest, but continued to deteriorate in places they couldn't see, Wu Xukuan was like a dormant beast, and when he made another move, it would be turned upside down!

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On the thirteenth day of the lunar month, Zhou An arrived at the Dongchang Yamen in the morning, stayed for an hour, and hurriedly returned to the inner court.

Because Xiao Tingzi told him that the batch of medicinal materials that Zhou An asked for alone had arrived.

This batch of medicinal materials is not much, there are only more than ten kinds, but it cost 300,000 taels of silver in the inner government.

This is the advantage of being in a high position and being powerful, Zhou An's demand for medicinal materials is really too great, but now, he doesn't need to spend money on his own at all, and he doesn't need to find a way by himself, as long as he gives an order, no matter how precious and rare medicinal materials are, he can buy them.

Qianli Palace, Ning'an Garden.

In the inner hall, Zhou An had just returned, and he was inspecting the medicinal materials that had just been sent.

There are a total of 14 kinds of medicinal materials, the most precious of which is the year of 2,000 years of He Shou Wu, this He Shou Wu has grown into a human form, placed in the folk, such He Shou Wu is in the world, is to lead the people to kneel and worship.

In addition, there are several ginseng strains that are more than 1,800 years old, wild red reishi mushrooms that are more than 1,000 years old, and blood python gall that is 100 years old...... Speaking of the hundred-year-old blood python gall, if you only talk about rarity, this thing is actually the rarest, because the blood python can't live for a hundred years at all, and those who can live for a hundred years are fast-ending...... The difficulty of finding a hundred-year-old blood python is even harder than finding someone who has a lifespan of more than one hundred and fifty!

Whether you can find the hundred-year-old blood python gall bladder depends on fate!

The small pavilion stood by the long case, carefully opening the brocade boxes one by one, while Zhou An took the list and looked at them one by one.

"There is only such a small piece of ambergris?" Zhou An looked at the contents of the brocade box and suddenly asked, this brocade box contained something that only had a fist and a gray-brown color like amber.

"Yes, Factory." Xiao Tingzi replied, "Ambergris is already scarce, and this is already the only stock of Tongbao...... They also heard that the court wanted it, so they sold it. ”

"Uh-huh......" Zhou An muttered.

He knows that Tongbao, which is the largest money village in the rivers and lakes that has been inherited for nearly 800 years, and is also known as the first money village in the world, which is already the top force in the world, and is also one of the few permanently neutral forces among the top forces in the rivers and lakes.

The neutrality of Tongbao is not that they claim not to participate in disputes, but the agreement between Tongbao and Wu Yuanyin, the founding emperor of Dongqian.

So after the founding of the country, there was this agreement, and Wu Yuanyin personally decreed this matter.

It is precisely because of Wu Yuanyin's decree that Tongbao has continued to grow in the past three hundred years, and has become one of the largest and most mysterious organizations in the world.

It is difficult to say whether Tongbao is the biggest money bank, after all, there is a money village of the imperial court, the people trust the court more, and the people in the rivers and lakes trust Tongbao more.

But one thing can be confirmed, Tongbao is the world's number one intelligence organization!

In the matter of the imperial court's acquisition of medicinal materials this time, Tongbao made a great contribution, and the medicine that Zhou An wanted, if the notification number was in stock, it would be sold to the imperial court, and if there was no inventory, they would sell the news and tell the imperial court who had it.

Since it is the relationship between the Tongbao number, or just looking for such a small piece, it means that there is really no more.

It's not completely nothing, that is, even if anyone in this world still has ambergris in their hands, it is not known, and it is extremely difficult to find.

Zhou An quickly finished counting the batch of medicinal materials.

Fourteen kinds, found all of them, but some of them are not enough.

And this is not all the medicinal materials that Zhou An needs.

This is just the first batch.

Zhou An also gave Xiaoting a few other lists, and many of the things to find were legendary things, such as the seven-colored vermilion fruit, even if this kind of thing really existed, it could not be found in a short time.

"Little pavilion, you go out to guard the door for our family, unless the Holy Lord summons you, don't bother our family about anything." Zhou Andao.

"Yes." The little pavilion received the order and hurried out.

Zhou An is going to start alchemy, and this time he is alone.

In fact, the batch of fourteen medicinal materials that had just arrived was all used as the main medicine for alchemy, not just one pill, but four! Two are used for healing, one is for breaking the realm, and the other is for Zhou An to try to see if he can grow after eating.

This is a prescription for medicine, which is better than the super grade Nine Turns Dan, which is considered a good grade here in Zhou An, and in this world, it can be regarded as the best!

It's the best recipe for refining the best elixir!

Therefore, Zhou An wanted to refine the Dan alone, and he didn't want others to know about the Danfang.

Not even a small pavilion.

It's not that Zhou An doesn't trust Xiao Tingzi, but Xiao Tingzi shouldn't know, it's not good for him to know, which may bring danger to him.

The inner hall had previously stocked hundreds of processed medicinal herbs, and now the fourteen main medicines had also arrived.

Nothing is missing.

Zhou An directly began closed-door alchemy!

The first elixir he wanted to refine was a top-grade healing elixir - Life and Death Flesh and Bone Pill!